Program for March 13 Student Conference – Identities, Ideologies, and Interactions: Conceptualizing New Histories
Identities, Ideologies, and Interactions: Conceptualizing New Histories
March 13th, 2015
PROGRAM
8:00-9:00 – Sign-in, light refreshments Room 5/114
9:00-10:40 –
Interactions with the State: Moments of Expansion and Resistance, Room 8/301
Commentator: Dr. Josh Freeman Chair: Dr. Kyle Francis
Ean Oesterle, “State-Building and the Immigration Reform Act: Implementing IRCA in New York”
Emily Brooks “The ‘Abortion Problem’ in New York, 1938-1942”
Jenna Krumminga, “The African Burial Ground: A Case Study in the Use of Public History as a Means of Resisting Marginalization.”
10:50-12:30 –
Identity under British Imperialism: Room 8/400
Commentator: Dr. Timothy Alborn Chair: Jeff Diamant
Phelim Dolan “Dr. Henry Jones and 17th Century Ireland”
Arman Azimi, “Oil and the “Other”: Orientalist Discourse, the Failure of Oil Negotiations, and the 1953 Coup in Iran.”
Luke Reynolds, “‘This race… so convinced of its innate superiority:’ imperial and class identity in early British Hong Kong.”
Everyday Pleasures in Modern Europe Room 8/301
Commentator: Dr. Randy Trumbach Chair: Chris Ewing
Davide Colasanto “The Emergence of Pleasure: Erasmus Students’ Sexuality and Its Media and Cultural Representations over Time”
Andrew Kotick “Laughing Matters: Humor and the Fabric of Parisian Community under Siege”
Diana Moore, “A Moral Risorgimento: Mazzinian Women and the Campaign against Regulated Prostitution in Italy”
12:30-1:30 – Lunch Break
12:45 – Keynote Address, Dr. Sara Pursley, Room 5/114 “Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq, 1921-63.”
1:30-3:10 –
History and Digital Methods, Room 8/400
Commentator: Dr. Steven Remy Chair: Roy Rogers
Micki Kaufman “Studies in Collocation: Language, Secrecy and Violence in the DNSA’s Kissinger Correspondence”
Jonhathan Thayer, “The Haystack: Who Controls the Archive in the Age of Big Data
Colonialism, Hegemony, and Diaspora, Room 8/301
Commentator: Dr. Satadru Sen Chair: Chris Ewing
Nick Levis “Dictatorship and Diaspora”
Chris Rominger “Thankful Sons and Dark Ideas: Institutionalizing Colonial Difference in French Muslim Hospitals during the First World War”
3:20-5:00 –
What’s Next? Post-Dissertation Research, Room 8/400
Commentator: Dr. David Nasaw Chair: Lauren Saxton
Scott Johnson, “The sources did not behave”
Francesca Vassalle, “Contraception in Post-Fascist-Italy: A Few Thoughts and Reflections”
Dr. Erin Wuebker, “Digital Additions and Transformation: Venereal Disease Visual History Archive”
Art as History, Art as Entrance, Room 8/301
Commentator: Dr. Julia Sneeringer Chair: Laura Ping
Michelle Donnelly “Escapes into Iowa: Grant Wood’s Agricultural Playgrounds, 1930-1936”
Gillian Pistell “Ray Johnson’s Historical Project: Reflections of Time”
Jeanne Gutierrez “Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Jewelry”
5:00 – Refreshments and Reception Room 5/414